| The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India Subjects: Religion and sociology -- China; Religion and sociology -- India; Secularism -- China -- History; Secularism -- India -- History; China -- Religious life and customs; India -- Religious life and customs; Nationalism -- China -- Religious aspects; National; A comparative look at religion and spirituality in postcolonial China and India Peter van der Veer is director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, and a Distinguished Professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His books include Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain (Princeton) and Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India . |